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Decoherence: Theoretical, Experimental, and Conceptual Problems
Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Bielefeld, Germany, 10-14 Novbember 1998 - Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 538, Lecture Notes in Physics 538
ISBN/EAN: 9783540668992
Umbreit-Nr.: 1435767
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 345 S.
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gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 24.01.2000
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeGeneral Introduction.- Elements of Environmental Decoherence.- The Meaning of Decoherence*.- Theoretical Aspects.- Continuous Fuzzy Measurement of Energy: Realization and Application.- Slow Decoherence of Superpositions of Macroscopically Distinct States.- Grey Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates as Mesoscopic Particles.- Decoherence Through Coupling to the Radiation Field.- States, Symmetries and Superselection.- Decoherence in Situations Involving the Gravitational Field.- Moving Quantum Agents in a Finite Environment.- Mathematical Aspects of Decoherence.- Decoherence and Continuous Measurements: Phenomenology and Models.- The Problem of Decoherence and the EPR-Paradox.- Asymptotically Disjoint Quantum States.- Experiments.- Dynamical Localization and Decoherence.- Quantum Cryptography and Long Distance Bell Experiments: How to Control Decoherence.- Exploration of the Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics by Charged Particle Interferometry.- Alternative Approaches.- Single Ions in Paul Traps.- Time-Convolutionless Stochastic Unraveling of Non-Markovian Quantum Master Equations.- Emergence of Classicality: From Collapse Phenomenologies to Hybrid Dynamics.- EEQT - Formalism and Applications.- An Application of EEQT: Tunneling Times.- Conceptual and Epistemoligical Issues.- Non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion and Open System Dynamics.- Quantum Theory Without Waves: A Way of Eliminating Quantum Mechanical Paradoxes?.- Decoherence as an Irreversible Process.- Many Minds and Single Mind Interpretations of Quantum Theory.- Decoherence and Einselection.
- Kurztext
- This text reviews the process of decoherence from the theoretical and experimental physicist's point of view. Implications of this important concept on fundamental problems of quantum theory, as well as on chemistry and biology are given.